Sag-Aftra has released a statement September 30 condemned round artificial intelligence talent studio xicoia’s shopping of a AI Actors named Tilly Norwood to the industry.
News broke from Deadline At the Zurich summit on September 27, which Hollywood Talent Agents have silently circled Norwood for representation. Over the past five months, Xicoia, launched by Dutch technologist Emily van der Velden as part of her company Particle 6 Productions, has been a soft launch of Norwood on Instagram.
The studio has laid out head shots, candids and even motion graphics for the AI artist, who takes the form of a dewy teenage girl who will live in London. Just over the past week, Xicoia has published hypothetical, AI-generated screenshots of Norwood in a kind of digital portfolio showing the different film Projects she could show up in: There is one of her in a weakly lit Thriller scenario, one of her on a subway (need AI characters public transport?), And one of her in a warm, light-period-romantic setting where she seems to have an emotional heart to heart with an object of her trust, her Furroged, her furrowed, her furrowed, her pine pine.
Of course, Naftra sees this as a existent threat.
“Sag-Aftra believes that creativity is and should remain human centered. The Union is against replacing human artists of synthetics,” the statement from the Union began.
“To be clear,” continued the statement, “‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it is a character generated by a computer program that was trained to work on countless professional artists-without state or compensation. It has no life experience to pull from, no feelings and, from what we have seen, the audience is not necessary to look at the computer genes the livelihoods’ livelihood and devalural human artistry.
“In addition, signing producers should be aware that they may not use synthetic artists without complying with our contractual obligations, which requires communication and negotiations when a synthetic artist will be used.”
Since the deadline, Rankled has many in Hollywood, including Melissa Barrera, who published on Instagram, “Hope all actors repped by the agent who does this, release their A $$. How rough, read the room.”
The actor and model Michael Aurelio tweeted, “quite narrative that the industries first venture into this was to create a teenage girl that they could control.”
For his part, Van der Velden responded to the growing motive operation by writing on Instagram, “For those who have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a work of art. Like many forms of art before she kicks conversation and that in herself the power.” “
“I do not see AI as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new brush. Just like animation, puppet or CGI opened new opportunities without removing from live spectacle, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories. I am an actor myself and nothing – really not an AI character – can take away the craft or joy”.
